the Usual
Watching the tv series A French Village again. On Kanopy now. So amazing. I love so many of these actors and the idea of recreating another time and place. Art […]
Performing
room to move
First concert I ever saw, Winnipeg playhouse John Mayall and it stunk because they were drunk and living their hippie dream. All wasn’t lost, eventually they tried to do Room […]
the never possible
There is this objective or direction in meditation practices. Look at a candle, observe thoughts without attachment, recite a mantra…all variations of controlling thought, of trying to position consciousness away […]
floating
There is so much madness in the world. Why shouldn’t there be, we are after all floating on a ball that is floating in a universe that is floating in […]
AI
One of the big discussions in AI is whether robots can ever become conscious. I like how it assumes we humans are conscious and not also machines. Are we not […]
mensch
The greatest gift an artist could give another artist, taking them on the road and sharing their audience. Natalie Merchant did that for Tracy Chapman. Fast Car would not have […]
probably think this post is about you
Listening to an interview with drummer Andy Newmark, talking about the recording session fifty years ago, on You’re So Vain by Carly Simon. Richard Perry, the producer, replaced him with […]
earlier AI
I played a piece I wrote at the Mendelson Joe memorial in April and it was videotaped. Good thing I didn’t realize that because recordings often are a distraction. When […]
memory
There is a game I play with my older brother Ronnie, we try to placing ourselves into childhood memories and see them again, especially details, we jog our memories with […]
With Carmaig de Forest
Carmaig de Forest and I did three tours in the 90s we shared cars, gas, bookings and places to crash. He lived in San Rafael, I lived 45 minutes past […]